Re: Building a Custom Table

[Mindbridge <mi...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Reinier,

I think the key is in this sentence:

> I also want to specify the size of the table so that I can show
> all the data on one page.

If I understand correctly, the table that you want to display would neither
have multiple pagses, nor would have sorting by a column. As such, I do not
think you would get a benefit from using Contrib:Table -- it is useful only
when one needs one or both of those features. 'Table' can do everything you
requested, but I think it would be an overkill in this case.

I would suggest instead to build your table manually using the Foreach and
Conditional components. Please have a look at their documentation in the
Component Reference (located in web/doc/ComponentReference in the Tapestry
distribution) -- it contains some great examples that are very relevant to
what you want to do and are probably directly applicable.

I hope this is helpful.

Best regards,
-mb


----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinier Mostert" <re...@clabo.co.za>
To: "Tapestry users" <ta...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:57 PM
Subject: Building a Custom Table


> Hi all,
>
> I've got a working Contrib table (thanx to the help I got from this
> list), but now I'm trying to add some columns to it, and shuffle the
> rows a bit differently.
>
> I'm reading my data from a database - for example a date and a value.  I
> want to show these in a table, and add a break of one line after every
> week, that is after every seventh day (in my case, after every
> Tuesday).  I also want to synthesize two columns, one that keeps a
> running total for the week, and one that keeps a running total for the
> table.  I also want to specify the size of the table so that I can show
> all the data on one page.
>
> So far I've been synthesizing the data before passing it to the table
> model (in the accessor class), but I'm wondering if there is a cleaner
> way to do it in the table.
>
> Please advise whether this is possible using the TableView.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> reinier
>
>
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